Although Kansas is a deeply conservative state, politics there has been upended in recent weeks, with a swathe of top Republican incumbents, up to and including the governor, Sam Brownback, battling against a surge of public anger over deep tax cuts.
Available across all the price ranges (beginning at £15) there is a surprisingly large swathe of games back on the market, including both quarter-finals at the Millennium Stadium, England v Uruguay, New Zealand v Argentina, France v Ireland, South Africa v Scotland and France v Italy.
"Apart from eliminating a whole swathe of potential business contacts, they're almost an admission that you can't cope in the wider business context so need to cling to the pack.
On the other, a possible future state of KurdistanIsis and the Kurds now confront each other across a swathe of territory from Sinjar region in the northwest, next to Syria, through to Khanaqin, close to the border with Iran.
In addition, there are coca farmers and gold-miners, and the threat of a long, long-mooted plan to build an enormous hydroelectric dam, El Bala, which president Evo Morales has been talking up, and which is slowly moving forward and would flood a huge swathe of the park.
The same trend is reflected in seats across a great swathe of south Wales that runs from Newport in the east to Llanelli in the west.
Horta-Osório is preparing to present a new three-year plan to the bank's board that is likely to spark fears of bank closures and another swathe of job cuts on top of 15,000 earmarked for his first three years.
But the South has a wide swathe of rural stagnation and some depressed cities: New Orleans, for example, was in trouble even before Hurricane Katrina hit it in 2005.
The fact that 60% of households own property might seem to suggest that rising house prices and inflated land values were good for a large swathe of the middle class.
It also requires radio broadcasters to transmit their digital signals over an entirely separate swathe of frequencies to their analogue signals.In America, that part of the spectrum is simply not available, having long since been allocated to the armed forces.
THE ominously named "Winter Storm Gorgon" is set to dump scads of the white stuff across a broad swathe of America, from the Rockies to the Poconos.
